Gen 4: my fav story and memories. DPPT are my fav games in the series because i love everything bout it: characters, story, music, places, pokémon. HG/SS amazing games too.
Gen 3: nice memories here too. I like mainly emerald, because it's different and it's more complete. now, i'll be honest. much of this generation has good memories for me because i was in my "let's explore old games" phase and i was obsessed with GBA games lol. but anyway, i loved the region, all that water lol, the music and the story. It was a truly good game.
Gen 5: the only reason it's here is for the story/characters. It's the best written story and it's the more realistic one. i think it wasn't for children at all since it's pretty deep. Anyway, i still prefer DPPT story lol. Tastes, i guess. I didn't like anything else bout this gen tho. When i played it as a child for the first time, i had a very bad experience with this game, since i basically hate 90% of the Unima new pokemon. now it's like 85% lol. I liked some cities, but i didn't like the graphics and the sprites and music at all. Indeed, despite those were new games, i still played DPPT lol, i was obsessed ik. and i still am lol. (not for BDSP tho. they ruined the game for me huuh).
Gen 2: it's over gen 8 just because of HG/SS tbh. i liked many things about this gen but in the end, idk it feels kinda anonymous since even the evil team is still Team Rocket. Pokèmon of this gen and Jhoto itself are amazing and i love em, but idk, it's kinda a "silent generation" for me, even tho many mechanics of the whole series started from here, which isn't always positive tho lol.
Gen 8: alright, the thing is it's actually a nice game. imo, the best since gen 5. The thing is, especially when it comes to the story, even if it's incredibly easy and short, it isn't so bad as the one from gen 6 or gen 7. I like the pokemon and the graphic style, despite we all know it has some bad issues lol. I liked Dynamax, which is prolly my fav mechanic between megas and z moves. I liked how they renewed the concept of "gym" and the whole battle circuit. Music was kinda good and the region wasn't too bad, except the fact that it is basically a straight line lol. DLCs were pretty good. Now, I think many people kinda don't evaluate the Island of Armor in the right way. I actually got lost in there many times and there were a lot different areas in just one small island. but every area was interconnected. Now, this is something i wanted. That's something that imo missed from the 4th gen, which is: being able to explore and even get lost. Now, the island is small and after a while the magic may disappear, but the feeling was great. I didn't have the same feeling with Crown Tundra, even tho it's still the best DLC imo. New pokèmon, new stories, new areas and Dynamax adventures. it was all pretty fun. Also, and i should have mentioned before, this game is addicting. I didn't feel like this since gen 4 maybe. I mean, i can't even imagine how much time i spent for Dynamax raids or for making my pokemon competitive, which is ridiculously easy. It was a nice experience, that made me spend much time on the game, than everything else probably. Indeed, there's something i hate about this game. it's too easy, i never died lol, too fast, even tho it's ok because u have more time for competitive, and cut dex. Now, i get why they cut the dex in the game and i kinda agree. but, when the game is over, when u have nothing else to do, there's no reason to not reintroduce old mons. I mean, pokemon is s "monster collector" game, how can it be if u don't have the opportunity to actually collect all of them?
Gen 6: mixed feelings about this. i had a very good vibe when it came out, especially because it fixed many things i didn't like in gen 5: music, new pokemon, the region and also the graphic style. However, i did hate the story and the characters were all plain. felt like nothing. i mean, it was a pokemon game i did in a fast way and then, once i finished it, i didn't play it anymore. It says much about the game, for me. Megas were a very nice feature i enjoyed, but tbh not too much. also, this game has a weird gaming rhythm. u re soon in the first gym, then there is the second/third gym part which is slower and then it returns to be super fast.
Gen 1: i m gonna be killed for this lol. The thing is, it's not a fun game, at least for me. it was the original one and it had many new features, new ideas and so on and we should all give extra points for this. but judging it as a gaming experience, it lacks in many things for me. I mean, the region, the music, the story , the characters. it was just meh to me. even tho gen 2 takes much from gen 1, i have to say that gen 2 did a really great job at surpassing gen 1. but it's my opinion/tastes again.
Gen 7: multiverse. lol. i wanna use this word. it pretty much sums up what i think about this game that i truly didn't like. The thing is: it was me at first who said: "hey, pokemon is just the same every time. they should change stuff. -me in 2014". so i quit playing pokemon. til ususm. when they came out i was like "hey, they listened to me? lol what?" and i was excited for every new thing. Except, every new thing sucks for me lol. I mean, first of all, they went over the limit: it's ok to abandon some classical mechanics, but NOT EVERYTHING IN ONE GAME. It was weird and tbh they didn't even manage to do it. Like, the idea of several islands instead of a whole region is nice, but all u have to do is literally just going straight and there's that fucking RotomDex that really wanted to ruin ur gaming experience lol. I didn't like the region, i didn't like the pokèmon and last but really not least the story. I don't know which story between gen 6 or 7 is the worse for me, but like i think they're both terrible tbh. I mean, the idea behind the story was really cool, but "hey GF, if u can't handle a normal story at all, how can u handle a story that includes Multiverse, where there may be lacking spots basically everywhere?". and indeed, it was like that. Also, i didn't like Lunala/Solgaleo evolution thing. I mean, u can't treat a legendary pokemon like a baby that can't fight. it's just weird. That's what i m talking about. till then, legendary pokemon didn't have evolutions, so, to change things in the series, they decided to go for it, but as a resukt it was just really weird. For me, at least. In this case, Swo/Shi managed to do that in the right way, with Kabfu/Urshifu. Same for regional forms. Alolan forms are weird and i didn't like most of them. i didn't like the idea as well tbh, because instead of just coloring a pokemon with another color or adding a weird wig on their head or making their neck ridiculously long, they could have invented just a couple new mons, for example. When it comes to Swo/Shi tho, regional forms are really great and amazing and i started liking the idea. Now Hisui already have the best regional forms for me tho lol. Other thing i hated was that not every pokemon has its entry in the pokedex. like wtf, they could have literally just copied and pasted stuff, like they did for other games. at least, it could have felt complete. i still prefer this to cut dex tho. also, z moves and totem battles kinda sucked, they were annoying tbh.
